| 摘 要： | Following the 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway, a group of twelve geoscientists gathered at the Geocentrum of Uppsala University in Sweden on 18-21 August 2008 to discuss the taxonomy and biostratigraphic significance of Ediacaran acritarchs. This workshop--the Swedish Workshop on Ediacaran Acritarch Taxonomy （SWEATshop）--was conceived during email discussion on the subdivision and correlation of Ediacaran and Cryogenian successions, which was initiated by IGCP 512 ＇Neopro- terozoic Ice Ages＇ led by Graham Shields and the ICS Subcommission on Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy chaired by Jim Gehling. The main goals of this workshop were to examine and compare Ediacaran acritarchs preserved in different taphonomic windows （i.e., car- bonaceous compression,
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